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Thanks for your advice, I found it! I need to get as much info. to understand some things about the ending in comparison with the game. But mostly to understand some things that I was a little lost by. But I will say this was a really great show.

After reading through everyone's comments, I now have a better understanding of the series than I did before. That's what I get for trying to finish the last 6 episodes before going to bed. Not to mention things possibly being rushed to tie up lose ends. You have to come to expect it when they're adapting the story from a game. So of course those that already know the game inside out won't have too much problems. The only thing they might have problems with is the pacing and various edits with the plot. Even if they keep or change some things. But from what I read they seemed to keep things pretty much the same except for a few things.

I will definitely want to own this series. Which I knew I would do. It has so many elements to a lot of my favorite games ('FF', 'BOF', 'Lunar', etc...) Hell, it's based off a fantasy game. If the game was ever ported over I would pick it up. Sadly...

I definitely want to give this series another run. A really great and moving story. I really have to pick it up to show to my friend. Since he wasn't grabbed the first time. But I think he'll like once I feed it to him. Since he likes a lot of the same stuff I do.

He lost memory when he was awakened as Iceman.
He lost memory again when he was saved by Eruru.
He didn't regain these memories back until the last episode.

Spoiler:

It doesn't say, but it's mentioned that the surface world was contaminated, and it took long time (hundreds? thousands? of years) to clense itself.
Humans were living underground, and lost immunity to many virus and germs, and was too weakened to live on the surface.
They found iceman, and researched him.. and from from studying his DNA, they created those humanoid specimen with immune system strong enough to live on the surface.

Time periods between these periods are not mentioned.
Here's the general idea:

1. Present, or close to present time: Archaeologist was killed near the petrified god.
2. Not too distant future: Earth surface contaminated. Most likely a world-wide apocalypse of some sort.
3. Far in the future: humans living in shelter, found iceman.
created beings that can live in the surface world, and work for them.
Researched iceman to create mask that can keep them alive on surface also.
Humans pissed off iceman, and were turned into slimes.
4. Even further in future (dozens, hundreds of generations later): Utawarerumono present time.

Now, there's a bit more story in the game that wasn't shown in the anime.

Spoiler for The fate of human kind:

The shelter iceman was at was in Japan.
There were other shelters around the globe.
However, when the scientists in Japan shelter were turned into slimes, The other shelters around the world decided to abandon them, and destroy them with satelite laser system.
The slimes cursed the world, and wished death to them all.
The god, Uytsuarunemitea (the angered Dii side) heared their call, and demanded Mutusmi to kill all humans around the world.
Mutsumi hacked the Amateras laser system, and used it to bring death to all shelters around the world.

Hence, the total genocide of human race was complete, and only the humanoids that fled to the surface world were left on earth.

Wow, that explained a lot, thanks for the explanations. The series makes more sense now.

I'm not so sure Hakuro's actually Eruru's great * X grandfather, becuz the baby of Mikoto was also disected no? Therefore there are no "direct" offspring from iceman really, they r all just modify beings coming from Hakuro's DNA, and since they r modified...not real blood relations. Just a theory

It was never mentioned whether his child was dissected just Mikoto was dissected. And with all the hints they were throwing at you in the anime and game implying that Eruru was Hakuro's descendant one can only assume that the baby somehow survived.

yeah. so im about a year late. but this series was seriously good and is prob one of my top favorites. although the ending wasn't the fairy tale everything turns out perfectly and lives happily ever after kind it still was very great in a way though it kind've left me disappointed because i love the typical everything works out in the end ending. i also like how it explained everything by the last episode. damn wish there was more

I just finished this anime and I am kinda disappointed at the end, I hate endings where the main character or w.e just goes up and leaves and you never see them agian. Also what was the point in killing off yuzuha at the very end?

I enjoyed Utawarerumono immensely. It's the the best anime I've seen, after Death Note. The characters were all so amazing and portrayed extremely well. Whats with all the ears, tails and wings? Hell, I don't know, but I loved it! The Japanese voice acting was also brilliant, Hakuoro's seiyu continued to impress me through the series. The story grabbed me and never let go. I had to think quite a bit to understand it all, but thats one of the best things about it. The back story was very interesting! I never would have thought the animation was done by the same studio that animated Pokemon. Utawarerumono's animation is easily above average, it fit the show extremely well, without ease. I also understand the backgrounds were mostly hand painted. Simply beautiful. The whole world of Utawarerumono is beautiful. The OST is very soothing and really fits the mood of the show. I now love Suara. She sang the opening (Musou Uta) and the song at the end of episode twenty six (Kimi Ga Tame). The ending was very sad (I admit it, I cried), but at the same time it was also so beautiful.

Spoiler for Ending:

However, after that we find out Yuzuha died!? Are they trying to kill me? I loved Yuzuha! Oboro is so cool by the end of the series though. They also teased us a bit with the ending. It appears that Kamyu and Aruruu notice something in the woods, and also Eruruu seems to notice something behind her, turns around and smiles (lovely smile by the way). Is it Hakuoro!? No one knows!

I could continue to praise Utawarerumono for as long as I live, the series is so amazing. I already own all the DVDs. If they bring out a boxset with some extras I'll buy that aswelll... That reminds me actually. There are also four special DVD episodes, which are absolutely hilarious! It's worth buying the DVDs simply for them. If you haven't seen Utawarerumono yet, why are you reading this? Go and watch it! You won't be disappointed, it is fantastic. Words can't explain how much I loved it.

If Hakuoro's mask falls off then he can't live in my opinion because of the condition of the Earth at that time. Remember, the scientists made a replica of his mask and said that could make them survive on the surface.

Gahhhh!!!!! I hate myself for thinking so much.

P.S. Yes, I know that I'm about 2 years late but I still felt like posting this anyway.

Wow, such an old thread, but I just finished watching and had a quick question here:

Spoiler for Ending:

I am a little unclear about Hakuoro. When did he obtain godlike status? I understand he was a scholar at first and then found that fossil where another scientist shot him. His blood was absorbed into the fossil etc. And then we see him again waking up with his mask greeted by Mitoko. Did he just regenerate his body or something? Was it because he was shot and his blood got on the fossil that he turned into a god? He was a normal human before that right?

I just don't get how someone with human origin became a god... and how he came back alive after being shot assuming that quite some time has passed already. There is a missing explanation as to what happened to him from the time he was shot and when he woke up with his mask and lived until present time in the anime.

It has been awhile since I watched/played Utawarerumono but it is one of my favorite animes so hopefully I remember enough to give a proper answer.

From what I can remember it was Hakouro's blood that had awoken the being inside the fossil. The being than gave Hakouro a basic proposition; allow me to become one with you and I'll give you the power to survive. The mask is just an icon to reflect the fact that the creature is in-fact living inside Hakuoro, or that they are one in the same.

You can think of the creature as the devil so to speak; your soul for _____. Very similar to when he met Eruruu and made a deal with her. In the end I don't think we really know one way or another if that thing was actually a god or not. All we know is that it was worshiped as a deity.

I don't know how you could say that Eruru loving Hakuoro was incestual since if she was related to his child in some way that would have been probably thousands of years in the past and would be like saying everyone is related to each other since at the beginning of humanity there were far fewer people and a large part of humanity is related to those people and from that related to each other.

I really loved the whole series and place it very high on my all time most favorite anime list but I think it would have been much better if it was 52 episodes instead of 26 episodes.

Nicely said. I agree I couldn't have thought of that without you! lol thanks a lot That problem was troubling me for a while... lol

Also, I won't blame on the author of this anime/game for...

Spoiler:

letting Hakuoro and Eruru being together, since it's somehow... kind of a reunion for Hakuoro and Mitsu for who-knows-how-long. (Hakuoro mentioned Eruru being like Mitsu near the end when Eruru was gonna kiss him.) It's a beautiful story It's been THAT LONG and they finally meet each other, so I would just let them go, and go easy on them with that incest topic Come on it's really a beautiful story where as even if Mitsu's physical body is gone, her "spiritual" self is back again, with new memories though (?) being together again with Hakuoro (Iceman).

This reminds me of Elfen Lied in manga. It has somewhat similar plot than this too

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A SRPG series I like is Fire Emblem. If you have a Wii, you can play the latest one for consoles. Fire Emblem is a Nintendo franchise. If you have a PS2 or PS3, there is the Disgaea series, and Final Fantasy Tactics (a PSOne game) is on PSN (check to see if it is on your PSN for your country; if you have a PS3).